I definitely agree with this NerdSlayer fellow, and I could care less if I lose karma for it just because moderators might cry at the possibility of supposed "e-mail relationships" being complete bullshit and totally meaningless. Of all topics addressed here, it's most unfortunate not that circle had lost his "girlfriend" (and I use the term lightly) for months due to spam, but moreover that with today's technology, people are allowed to escape reality and attempt to make and break emotional bonds so easily and with such little real meaning, rather than actually complying with "social norms".
Karma deathwise, or expression of extreme beliefs? An interesting test of Slashdot free speech. I'm honestly curious as to how they judge a most-likely totally alien view.
What does this prove? That you're too stupid to restart a daemon? My god; and you expect me to believe your critique of modern operating systems?
Please, someone "troll" this child.
Not to troll; but yeah, I agree. I've had uptimes of over 200 days with Windows 2000. Laugh, the excuse for an operating system did come pretty close to crashing and burning; though.
Well, based on the number of them; I expect the whole place to be packed full of pessimists yelling "BSD is dying" and lots of boxing matches between MS and open source zealots;).
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Windows community when IDC confirmed that IE market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all users. Coming on the heels of a recent CNN survey which plainly states that IE has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Microsoft is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a rocket scientist to predict Windows' future. The hand writing is on the wall: Windows faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Windows because Windows is dying. Things are looking very bad for Windows. As many of us are already aware, Windows continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Windows is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. There can no longer be any doubt: Windows is dying.
In the article it is stated that with a huge percentage of market share, would the end user really care whether or not it was open-source? It seems too many people who release software have some strange belief that being open source will make their program hundreds of times more popular or more effective for the end user. Sure, for the development phase it's great, and it gives the programming user a chance to fix what they don't like; but for the love of god, it doesn't do much for your average user.
Sorry for the rant, it seemed very related ^_^.
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I'm going to tell you this once, and I'm going to make this brief. I am completely honest when I say that I would never purchase the CDs I am downloading music from. They aren't losing a penny from me downloading an MP3 because, to be honest; I wouldn't buy the CD even if I did like the music.
Thanks, you presented some valid points but they do not apply in my situation; which is probably the same situation for several (hundred?)thousand people.
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This is a group of people that are as fundamental about digital rights and copyright as those terrorists are about destroying modern America. This is a solution they could take very seriously.
I've watched Mozilla for Windows grow quite a fair bit from humble beginnings; and I'm really quite impressed with how it has developed. I'm sure there are people who would jump to say it was always fast and better and faster than Internet Explorer; but this is from a view point with modest hardware. I've always used Internet Explorer before simply because it was fast. Click and it booted, no wait and no pain;). Now, finally, I am writing this post using Mozilla RC3 Windows binaries, and it is faster to boot than Internet Explorer; even on lower hardware, and the page loading time is much faster not to mention a faster render time. I'd just like to give a big congratulations to the Mozilla development team, because they've managed to, without access to the very internals of the operating system, create a browser faster than one that does. Good job, and it can only get better from here:-).
A company that openly admits they needed the open source community.. wow! Makes me smirk now to look at companies like LINDOWS, which are smothering and flaming the community-- hiding the source and ignoring them. Even slapping them in the face.
Thanks, Musenki. You are a role model company.
So, if there is postcardware; and mailware (yes, I have heard of it), can I assume that heroinware involves the sending of the drug to the author of the product in return for registration?
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I definitely agree with this NerdSlayer fellow, and I could care less if I lose karma for it just because moderators might cry at the possibility of supposed "e-mail relationships" being complete bullshit and totally meaningless. Of all topics addressed here, it's most unfortunate not that circle had lost his "girlfriend" (and I use the term lightly) for months due to spam, but moreover that with today's technology, people are allowed to escape reality and attempt to make and break emotional bonds so easily and with such little real meaning, rather than actually complying with "social norms".
Karma deathwise, or expression of extreme beliefs? An interesting test of Slashdot free speech. I'm honestly curious as to how they judge a most-likely totally alien view.
What does this prove? That you're too stupid to restart a daemon? My god; and you expect me to believe your critique of modern operating systems? Please, someone "troll" this child.
Not to troll; but yeah, I agree. I've had uptimes of over 200 days with Windows 2000. Laugh, the excuse for an operating system did come pretty close to crashing and burning; though.
55 more and it would stop their heart ;). Ruthless, but you gotta love campus admins :).
I agree with every single point you've made. Thanks for expressing this here.
Well, based on the number of them; I expect the whole place to be packed full of pessimists yelling "BSD is dying" and lots of boxing matches between MS and open source zealots ;).
It is official; CNN confirms: Windows is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Windows community when IDC confirmed that IE market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all users. Coming on the heels of a recent CNN survey which plainly states that IE has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Microsoft is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a rocket scientist to predict Windows' future. The hand writing is on the wall: Windows faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Windows because Windows is dying. Things are looking very bad for Windows. As many of us are already aware, Windows continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Windows is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. There can no longer be any doubt: Windows is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Fact: Windows is dying
In the article it is stated that with a huge percentage of market share, would the end user really care whether or not it was open-source? It seems too many people who release software have some strange belief that being open source will make their program hundreds of times more popular or more effective for the end user. Sure, for the development phase it's great, and it gives the programming user a chance to fix what they don't like; but for the love of god, it doesn't do much for your average user.
Sorry for the rant, it seemed very related ^_^.
I'm going to tell you this once, and I'm going to make this brief. I am completely honest when I say that I would never purchase the CDs I am downloading music from. They aren't losing a penny from me downloading an MP3 because, to be honest; I wouldn't buy the CD even if I did like the music. Thanks, you presented some valid points but they do not apply in my situation; which is probably the same situation for several (hundred?)thousand people.
This is a group of people that are as fundamental about digital rights and copyright as those terrorists are about destroying modern America. This is a solution they could take very seriously.
Could you recommend some viable X servers that might have better performance than XFree86 with nVidia drivers?
I've watched Mozilla for Windows grow quite a fair bit from humble beginnings; and I'm really quite impressed with how it has developed. I'm sure there are people who would jump to say it was always fast and better and faster than Internet Explorer; but this is from a view point with modest hardware. I've always used Internet Explorer before simply because it was fast. Click and it booted, no wait and no pain ;). Now, finally, I am writing this post using Mozilla RC3 Windows binaries, and it is faster to boot than Internet Explorer; even on lower hardware, and the page loading time is much faster not to mention a faster render time. I'd just like to give a big congratulations to the Mozilla development team, because they've managed to, without access to the very internals of the operating system, create a browser faster than one that does. Good job, and it can only get better from here :-).
A company that openly admits they needed the open source community.. wow! Makes me smirk now to look at companies like LINDOWS, which are smothering and flaming the community-- hiding the source and ignoring them. Even slapping them in the face. Thanks, Musenki. You are a role model company.
So, if there is postcardware; and mailware (yes, I have heard of it), can I assume that heroinware involves the sending of the drug to the author of the product in return for registration?